The Supreme Court hears an unusual case in which civil rights groups are in a tentative alliance with Republican officials in ...

The case before the Supreme Court involves a state voting law that pits minority voter protections against the equal ...

Civil rights lawyer and scholar Sherrilyn Ifill will head the project. On March 27, Howard University launched its 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy, housed within Howard University’s ...

Gorsuch asked attorneys for counsel opposing the drawn map. "Isn't saying race was one consideration another way of saying race predominated? And how do we square that with the 14th Amendment's ...

Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris contends in her filing that Trump's order is constitutional because the 14th amendment's citizenship ... that has previously drawn criticism from some members ...

Trump's action has drawn a series of lawsuits from plaintiffs ... Trump's order violates a right enshrined in the Constitution's 14th Amendment that provides that anyone born in the United States ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Sherrilyn Ifill, of Howard University School of Law, about the opening the 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy.

Howard University - the historically Black school here - opens a center today dedicated to the 14th Amendment. The 14th Amendment was added to the Constitution after the Civil War. It establishes ...